St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-10
SOON MUST Die.


worlds martyrs. Spies, Mr.. Osborne
said, fully believed this AT 2:40 o'clock
this afternoon the following telegram
was received by Parsons in the jail:
Sign Immediately petition | have
prepared for you, and get Engel and
Fischer to sign it. Everything may de-
pend upon this-your lives and others
the public. For Gods sake, sign. and
wire me at once. W. p. BLACK"
Parsons at once declared the cOmmunf
but Engel said he would sign if the
others did. The dispatch was dated
Springfield and was filed at 2 o'clock
p. III.
The telegram was handed Parsons by
postal telegraph messenger, who was
accompanied by Jailer FolZ. Parsons
read the message over several times,
then receipted for it, and was turning
away with the remark that no appeal
would move him, when the messenger
asked MIN for IS cents charges on the
telegram. Parsons eyes flashed as he
turned upon the boy, and thruSting the
message back through the bars told him
to
SEND IT BACK
to the author and say that he (Parsons)
said it was id fraud, as Capt. Black,
he knew, would not send a message
without paying for it. Fischer and
Engei took the same view.
The event of the day at the jail was
the visit of Attorney Solomon. He came
first at $50 p. M, and asked Jailer Folz
| to allow him to see the prisoners. His
request was refused. Shortly afterward
he returned with Sheriff MatSon and
proceeded to Parsons cell, accompanied
by the sheriff. Here he drew out a
| typewriter legal document, and after
| making short explanation to the pris-
oner, and designating two places where
he should sign his name, went to
Fielden'S and Spies cells, where the
same performance was repeated. When
Solomon returned to the jail Office he
announced that the papers in question
were applications for writS of habeaS
corpus, based mainly OH the ground
that the prisoners were never present
| before the supreme court of Illinois, and
consequently there was
NO LEGAL JUDGMENT
against them. Solomon asked Jailer FOlZ
if he would sign an affidavit that during
the period the supreme court was in Ses-
sion at Ottawa the condemned men had
been continuously in Cook county Jail.
The jailer heSitatingly answered that
he supposed he could do so. but it was
very obvious that he was not anxious to
sign the document. The lawyer then
made the same request of Chief Clerk
Price and obtained Il semi-affirmative re-
| ply, Mr.. Solomon proceeded to fix out
the affidayits but by the time this had
| been done Jailer FOlZ and Chief Clerk
Price informed him they had reconsid-
| cred their disposition to consent an dthe
lawyer was obliged to leave without OBJ
tanning the signatures of the officials.
| Mr.. Solomon declined to say positively
which, if any. of the CITY judges he
would apply to for writ, and would
not deny but that he might go
| to one of the judges of the state
supreme court, now in session at Mount
Vernon.
When States Attorney Grinnell was
informed that Spies and Fielden had
signed the petition for a writ of habeas
corpus, he expressed considerable sur
prise. IF such is the case" he said,
Il don't know but | will withdraw my
letter to the governor"
''WiIl YOU do it?'
well, will have to consider it for a
while, but am inclined at present to
recall it,
During the afternoon Fathers NJ. J.
FitZsimOnS and \. j. Mooney,
TWO CATHOLIC PRIESTS
from the Holy Name cathedral, called
at the county jail in company with
| Sheriff MatSon and sent note to
Schwab stating they understood that
his parents had been Catholics and that
he had been baptized and confirmed i'll
the Catholic church, and that they de-
sired to know if they could be of any
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the note, declining to say any
thing on the subject, and the two
would-be spiritual CONSIDERS departed.
The bread dealers on the North side
have requested their customers to buy
enough bread tomorrow to last them
until Saturday. This is because the
German bakers refuse to work the day
of the execution, and are going to make
it holiday in accordance with the reso-
luton adopted by the Central Labor
union at their last meeting.